Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager system requirements

The following tables describe the software and hardware requirements for Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager.

Software

Component

Requirements

Operating system

Windows Server 2008 (64-bit)

Windows Server 2008 R2

Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 R2

Windows Server 2016

Note:

Desktop operating systems are not supported.

Windows Server Core edition is not supported. Windows Server Core does not include Internet Explorer, which Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager requires to work.

Web browser

The following browsers are supported for web console access to Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager and for viewing the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Help:

Microsoft Edge
Note: The 32-bit version Windows 10 does not support web console access on the Edge browser.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 11

Mozilla Firefox 5.x through 50.x (MP1), through 53.x (MP2)

Google Chrome 55.0.x (MP1), 58.0.x (MP2)

Database

The Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager includes an embedded database. You may instead choose to use a database from one of the following versions of Microsoft SQL Server:

SQL Server 2008, SP4

SQL Server 2008 R2, SP3

SQL Server 2012, RTM - SP3

SQL Server 2014, RTM - SP2

SQL Server 2016

Note:

The SQL Server Express Edition database is not supported.

Note:

If Symantec Endpoint Protection uses a SQL Server database and your environment only uses TLS 1.2, ensure that SQL Server supports TLS 1.2. You may need to patch SQL Server. See the following for more information:

If you use a SQL Server database, you may need to make more disk space available. The amount and location of additional space depends on which drive SQL Server uses, database maintenance requirements, and other database settings.

512 MB (1 GB recommended) or higher if required by the operating system

Display

800 x 600 or larger

Hard drive

Disk space requirements depend on the type of client you install, which drive you install to, and where the program data file resides. The program data folder is usually on the system drive in the default location C:\ProgramData.

Available disk space is always required on the system drive, regardless of which installation drive you choose.

Space requirements are based on NTFS file systems. Additional space is also required for content updates and logs.

Symantec Endpoint Protection client for Windows available hard drive system requirements when installed to the system drive

Client type

Requirements

Standard

With the program data folder located on the system drive:

395 MB*

With the program data folder located on an alternate drive:

System drive: 180 MB

Alternate installation drive: 350 MB

Embedded / VDI

With the program data folder located on the system drive:

245 MB*

With the program data folder located on an alternate drive:

System drive: 180 MB

Alternate installation drive: 200 MB

Dark network

With the program data folder located on the system drive:

545 MB*

With the program data folder located on an alternate drive:

System drive: 180 MB

Alternate installation drive: 500 MB

* An additional 135 MB is required during installation.

Symantec Endpoint Protection client for Windows available hard drive system requirements when installed to an alternate drive

Client type

Requirements

Standard

With the program data folder located on the system drive:

System drive: 380 MB

Alternate installation drive: 15 MB*

With the program data folder located on an alternate drive:**

System drive: 30 MB

Program data drive: 350 MB

Alternate installation drive: 150 MB

Embedded / VDI

With the program data folder located on the system drive:

System drive: 230 MB

Alternate installation drive: 15 MB*

With the program data folder located on an alternate drive:**

System drive: 30 MB

Program data drive: 200 MB

Alternate installation drive: 150 MB

Dark network

With the program data folder located on the system drive:

System drive: 530 MB

Alternate installation drive: 15 MB*

With the program data folder located on an alternate drive:**

System drive: 30 MB

Program data drive: 500 MB

Alternate installation drive: 150 MB

* An additional 135 MB is required during installation.

** If the program data folder is the same as the alternate installation drive, add 15 MB to the program data drive for your total. However, the installer still needs the full 150 MB to be available on the alternate installation drive during installation.

You can use the following graphical desktop environments to view the Symantec Endpoint Protection for Linux client:

KDE

Gnome

Unity

Other environmental requirements

Glibc
Any operating system that runs glibc earlier than 2.6 is not supported.

i686-based dependent packages on 64-bit computers
Many of the executable files in the Linux client are 32-bit programs. For 64-bit computers, you must install the i686-based dependent packages before you install the Linux client. If you have not already installed the i686-based dependent packages, you can install them by command line. This installation requires superuser privileges, which the following commands demonstrate with sudo: For Red Hat-based distributions: sudo yum install glibc.i686 libgcc.i686 libX11.i686 For Debian-based distributions: sudo apt-get install ia32-libs For Ubuntu-based distributions: sudo apt-get install libx11-6:i386 libgcc1:i386 libc6:i386

net-tools or iproute2
Symantec Endpoint Protection uses one of these two tools, depending on what is already installed on the computer.